DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: WOODS, ADDISON J. (published 1900)
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A Biographical History of Darke County Ohio, published in
Chicago by the Lewis Publishing Company, 1900. p.547-548

                        ADDISON J. WOODS

     Among the highly respected and well-known citizens of
German township, Darke county, Ohio is Addison J. Woods, who
has spent nearly the whole of his life on his farm.
     Moses Woods, the father of Addison J., was one of the
pioneers of Darke county, where he spent a long and useful life,
actively identified with the affairs of his locality.  He was of
Virginia birth, born June 26, 1793, and when a young man, as
early as 1814, came out to what was then called the Wester
Reserve, stopping first at Cincinnati.  Then he came north to
Darke county and became a resident of Harrison township.  He
taught the first school in that township at Yankeetown, in 1819,
in a log school house, with paper windows, and for several years
taught in winter and farmed in summer.  He also worked some at
house building.  Politically he was a Democrat, took an active
interest in the campaigns and in 1839 was elected county
commissioner of Darke county, receiving as compensation for his
services the sum of fifteen dollars per year.  In 1832 he moved
to the farm on which the subject of this sketch now lives, and
there Moses Woods lived until 1856, when he moved to Hollansburg.
In 1858 he moved to Palestine, where he passed the rest of his
life and died, being about eighty-three years of age at the time
of his death.
     The mother of Addison J. Woods was before marriage Miss
Hannah Moore, the date their marriage being June 27, 1822.  She
was born March 26, 1794, in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Matthew
Moore, a native of Ireland.  He served seven years in the
Revolutionary war.  Mr. Woods has in his possession a cone-shaped
bottle which his grandfather Moore carried with him during his
service in the army.  Mrs. Woods outlived her worthy husband
several years, passing away May 24, 1891, her age at death being
ninety-eight years.  They were the parents of six children that
reached adult age, and three of that number are now living,
namely: Addison J., Lewis and their sister, Mrs. Caroline McGrew.
     Addison Woods was the fourth in his father's family, born in
Harrison township June 2-, 1830, and was eighteen months old at
the time they settled in German township, on the farm where he
was reared and where he has ever since resided.  This farm
comprises one hundred and sixty acres, is located on section 29.
and is devoted to stockraising and the usual crops of the
vicinity.
     Mr. Woods was married, February 28, 1856, to Miss Hannah
Steele, who was born in Butler county Ohio, March 18, 1830, and
reared in Darke county.  The children of this union were four in
number as follows: Alice, born May 14, 1857, now the wife of
Theodore Gist, who is engaged in the real-estate business in
Indianapolis, Indiana; they have one son, Addison, born March 9,
1879.  Lillie, born December 27, 1870, who died in infancy;
William, born January 29, 1874, who also died in infancy;
Caldwell, born September 16, 1863, on the home farm with his
father, married Ella Chenoweth, a native of this county and a
daughter of Wesley Chenoweth, of Hollansburg.
     In his political affiliations Mrs. Woods is Democratic.  His
father was a member of the Christian church, but he has never
identified himself with any church, nor is he a member of any
secret societies.  He has always been known as an honorable,
upright citizen, and is justly entitled to the esteem in which he
is held by all who know him.